The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-17
WINTER WORK IN COLLEGES.
Physical Training for Girls-Some
Points About the Fall Bonnets.


Points About the Fall BonnetS
! New YORK, Oct. 15.-There are some in
teresting names on the list of the classes at
Smith College this fall-the daughter of ex-
Gov. Robinson, of Massachusetts,; of Judge
Barrett. of Vermont; of Simon Sterne, the
New York lawyer and writer on social sci
ence, and Dora Goodale, the poet. 1t is just
at this season when the colleges are settling
down to their winter work that one looks
for evidences of heathful growth in the
girls schools and seldom fails to find them.
Smith has a new observatory completed
during the summer, and under the direction
of Miss Mary Byrd. a graduate of Michigan
University, and for four years one of the
directors of the observatory of Carleton
College, Minnesota. Miss Byrd is practi-
cal astronomer and has done original work.
An essay of hers was recently translated and
| republished in one of the French scientific re-
views. Smith is also for the first time to have
resident woman physician, Dr. Grace Pres
! ton, one of its own aumnR, who has since
taken medical degrees at Boston University
and in Paris. DR.. Preston will be demon
strator and lecturer on anatomy, physiology
and hygiene, and it is believed that the
presence of physician of the students
own sex in the school will go far toward
solving the problems of physical and men
| tai culture as they present themselves in the
daily lives of girl students
THERE is NO ONE SUBJECT
to which girls schools are paying more at
| tention nowadays than physical training.
| Educators have been made almost super
sensitive on the subject of feminine ability
to stand mental culture. Accordingly the
| alumn9 of Smith are raising money for the
more complete equipment of the gymnasium
and ground will be broken at Vassar for
| new gymnasium in a very few weeks Vas
sar, by the way, has f1ourished greatly since
| Dr. Taysor assumed the Presidency and is
| opening the present year under the most
promising auspices. The Laboratory of
Chemistry and Physics has been enlarged
through the generosity of John Guy VasSar.
who with his brother, Matthew Vassar, Jr.,
originally built the laboratory, which bears
| their name. VaSsar has a new fire service
| this fall more complete than most things of
its sort in the country. DR.. Elizabeth B.
Thelberg is the newly appointed resident
physician; Miss A. M. Ely of the New York
Normal College, has been appointed Pro
| fesSor of Mathematics, and Miss Lucy NJ
Salmon, fellow of Bryp Mawr and author
of 1.-The Appointing Power of the Presi-
DENT Associate Professor of History Miss
Bertha Robinson, daughter of the Rev.
Dr. Robinson, President of Brown Univer-
sity, is one of the new teachers of English
''HoTBEDs OF FILTRATION"
expresses a very usual opinion of co-educa-
tional schools. AS a matter of fact it is Gu
| riouS to note the wide differences in the
relation of the sexes that exist in different
institutions. There may be or may not, be
schools where the students fiirt; there Ger
tainly are schools where it is not at all unu-
sual for them to fall in love, contract en-
gagements and in due time get married
have in mind instances where as many as 40
per cent OF certain class paired off to take
LIES journey together after passing the pre-
liminary barriers of deferentiai and integral
calculus in company and | am bound to add
| that these marriages, so far as | have been
informed of them, have turned out most
excellently well. The mingled rivalry and
good fellowship of the classroom seemed to
give good opportunity for that full and fair
acquaintance which ought to precede mat
rimony, better opportunities probably than
are offered by the more guarded intercourse
which society sanctions. Young men and
: young women students beo0iie good com
rades, and they stay good comrades under
standing one another thoroughly, after
they have settled down to life's business to-
gether.
Such cases as these are not, however,
typical. A great ma iority of the co-educa-
tional colleges are more after the pattern of
Boston University, where, as one might ex-
pect perhaps from the non-maIrying repu-
cially intimate intercourse, not the faintest
| suspicion of "a Irritation between students of
| opposite sexes has been known since the
foundation of the school, The after fortune
of every student is accurately known
through the full records kept by the gradu-
ating classes, and year or two ago, when
! | last gave any attention to the matter, the
only marriage that had within the annals of
the college taken place between ex-students
was that of daughter of the late Bishop
| Gilbert Haven, whose acquaintance with
the man who became her husband was
formed after her successful graduation
| As matter of fact the atmosphere of a
co-educational school, whether the relations
of the students remaiu those OF simple col
lege friendship, as at Boston and in most
other schools, or ripen into something
warmer, is apt to be clearer and more
healthy, with less of sentinentahty about
it than where the sexes are kept apart and
each invests the other with a romantic gla-
mour which a little observation one of an
| others struggles with Cicero's De Amicitia
would do wonders to dispel
There is New England legend that mis-
| sionaries used to resort to Mount Holyole
| Seminary to pick out wives on the eve of a
voyage to the land of the heathen The le-
! gend may be a SANDER, but there is hardly
a seminary town in the country where theo-
! logues of any denomination abound in which
| cogniZed profession among the feminine
| population. Other studentsare not so much
| given to matrimony, because there is no
other profession in which wife is such a
necessary article of ones stock in trade, but
separating the sexes is not going to hinder
love making. The chances are that in the
co-educational school the student masculine
win still pass his leisure hours with the so
ciety girls of the college town, while the
student feminine will attend strictly to her
own business, which is that OF beating him
in the class room--slTe having, as a Harvard
oarsman put it, nothing else to take up her
mind-if she can If it turns out differ
emily it would be hard to bring forward,
from fact or theory, any reason why a col
lege marriage should not be quite as wise
and quite as happy us most other kinds
THE FALL BONNET
is the most deceptive thing on earth. 1t
looks simple, innocent, utterly without vile
or guile, almost Quakerish in its demure-
ness. 1t is the most unassuming bit of
headgoar that the city has seen in years. 1t
wins a womans heart and yet more a mans
by its pretty, engaging modesty. In point
of fact that unpretentious little concern
that almost persuaded you bonnet wearers
had for once forsworn the vanities of earth
and were planning return to quiet nuns
gray is the most delusive bonnet on earth
1t is the most difficult bonnet to build that